Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 817 - 722: Five Hundred Years In A Hurry_3

Chapter 817: Chapter 722: Five Hundred Years In A Hurry_3

In the secret realm, one could find everywhere exotic flowers and herbs, ancient savage forests, and rare and extraordinary beasts.

Of course, what brought Fang Xi the most comfort was that the Mother Qi of All Woods had finally reached a thousand mu!

He took a deep breath, pulsating together with the Spirit Realm.

By this time, Fang Xi’s cultivation of the Kuyong Skills had also reached the initial peak of the Returning to Emptiness stage, and he could attempt to break through to the mid-stage realm.

When a cultivator breaks through a realm in Returning to Emptiness, a Minor Heavenly Tribulation is inevitable!

Fang Xi originally wanted to try transcending the tribulation in the Mortal Realm, but he immediately felt danger.

This was a caprice of a cultivator’s heart, and it was clear that in the Mortal Realm not only would it not mitigate the tribulation, but it might also lead to some great terror!

According to his original thought, the Interface Power of the Mortal Realm was weak, so perhaps the might of the Heaven Tribulation would be much smaller.

But now it seemed that it might actually be more terrifying, such as being outright rejected by the world!

Even though he had the Earth Immortal Heritage, it would still be wise not to take risks in this regard.

So Fang Xi decided to undergo the tribulation in the Earth Immortal Realm in an honest manner.

He had already reached the peak of the initial stage of Returning to Emptiness, and if willing, could challenge the mid-stage bottleneck at any time.

For many cultivators of the Earth Immortal Realm, breaking through each small realm of Returning to Emptiness required over a thousand years of arduous effort.

Especially for breaking through the bottleneck, one must prepare for a long time, constantly refining Divine Consciousness and Magic Power, or even finding assisting Spiritual Pills, to have some certainty of making the breakthrough.

However, for Fang Xi, who had cultivated the Earth Immortal Heritage, now that the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm had met the requirements, he could easily break the mid-stage bottleneck.

This was truly no simple matter!

The higher the cultivation realm, the greater the suppression of every minor realm!

A mid-stage Returning to Emptiness cultivator, theoretically speaking, could easily defeat or even kill an initial-stage Returning to Emptiness cultivator.

Only someone like Fang Xi, who was beyond standard and also held replicas of Immortal Mansion Rare Treasures, could barely manage to slay against the odds.

"Not only that, after breaking through to the mid-stage of Returning to Emptiness, the speed of accumulating the Mother Qi of All Woods should also be able to increase somewhat..."

Now on the verge of breaking through to the mid-stage of Returning to Emptiness, Fang Xi did not immediately set out, but with a single thought, he left the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm.

Mortal Realm, Southern Wilderness, Thousand Island Lake.

Since Fang Xi and others had ascended, the Mortal Realm had come to be dominated by Penglai Fairy Island in the Eastern Sea.

The Master Shui of Penglai Fairy Island, known as the number one cultivator in the Mortal Realm, had nearly unified the North Plains, Western Desert, and the gradually recovering Middle Earth, yet he always left the Southern Wilderness untouched and had not invaded even a bit.

And now, the Thousand Island Lake of the Southern Wilderness, thanks to its extremely rich Spiritual Vein resources and the presence of an ancient teleportation array, was emerging as the leading power of the Southern Wilderness, with Nascent Soul cultivators emerging one after another.

——Ever since Fang Xi began to cultivate the Way of the Earth Immortal, he had kept a low profile, completely disregarding worldly affairs in the Mortal Realm and not showing himself.

Even though the Thousand Island Lake still had descendants from the Zhong Family, Ruan Family, Wang Xiaohu, Hai Danaiu, and others, for him, "A gentleman’s grace cuts off after five generations," and the current Thousand Island Lake, where those few families had all existed for far more than fifty generations, held basically no feeling of kinship for him.

In terms of feelings of closeness, it was even less than for Shui Lingxin of the Eastern Sea.

After all, this girl was suspected to be the reincarnation of Wei Yixi and even after breaking through to Transcendent God, she had called him "Uncle"...

"Has Shui Lingxin also come to ascend recently?"

Fang Xi prepared to send the girl off to the North Plains.

It would settle a concern of his heart, after which he could go and break through the mid-stage of Returning to Emptiness.

Back in the day, as the second Transcendent God of Penglai Fairy Island, Shui Lingxin had obligations to her sect and had just broken through to Transcendent God, so she reluctantly gave up the chance to ascend, bidding farewell to her mentor Fairy Yunxi and Fang Xi as they left.

Indeed, that ascension was a rare grand event in the Mortal Realm. Liu Xu, Fairy Yunxi, and even Xiao Qing and Daqing—under the protection of the Heterodox incarnation, successfully ascended to the Earth Immortal Realm, where each of them now enjoys a rapid increase in their cultivation; Fairy Yunxi is even close to challenging the bottleneck of Returning to Emptiness.

Having taken charge of the Mortal Realm, Shui Lingxin was earnest and industrious, not only breaking through to the mid-stage of Transcendent God herself but also mastering a Void Divine Power that made her journey through the Ascension Platform very safe. Moreover, she trained another Transcendent God for her sect, ensuring someone would take over her responsibilities and that the Taoist system would continue unharmed.

One could say that her life in the Mortal Realm was quite fulfilling.

Fang Xi did not plan to appear and needlessly disturb her Dao Heart but just to take a distant look...

The space node where he previously stored the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm was located in the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.

At this moment, with a flash of light, Fang Xi’s figure, dressed in a green robe, appeared on the shoreline of Thousand Island Lake.

’From the Southern Wilderness to the North Plains, now I can directly cross the Great Dream Marsh and head straight north... Flying straight would get me there, though it’s a bit far. If I were to use the power of Returning to Emptiness, it would be too conspicuous...’

’Better to go to Jade Island and take the ancient teleportation array, just a transfer away...’

With his current abilities, he could naturally board the ancient teleportation array without anyone noticing—this little bit of the Mortal Realm wasn’t worth Fang Xi wasting even a single Immortal Jade to set up a few spatial coordinate nodes.

The sound of water splashing!

A green flat-bottomed boat broke through the morning mist, gliding across the lake.

Fang Xi stretched out his hand, lightly touching the slightly icy lake water, feeling the urge to let out Daqing.

But then he thought better of it, as that silly fish still believed he was in the Earth Immortal Realm...

Although, with his current strength, all these matters were trivial.

Even if he were exposed, no one could cause him any trouble...

Suddenly, a soft and gentle song from a young girl wafted through the mist.

The song was crisp and pleasing to the ear, like the delightful trill of a nightingale.

Then, from within the fog, a Spirit Boat emerged, paddled by a slender girl, accompanied by a seven- or eight-year-old girl.